Review By HOMA WOODRUM This is a board book that manages to do something a little new (to me) in an ABC book – there is a hint of narrative as the various animals in the book progress through the letters of the alphabet. I have always thought ABC books for babies were more for […]
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Click, Clack, ABC
July 3rd, 2012 · 2 Comments · Books
Tags: Alphabet·Baby Book·Betsy Lewin·Board Book·Cows·Doreen Cronin·Farmed Animals·Good for Toddlers·Homa Woodrum
Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type
April 30th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Introduce little ones to the ideas of worker’s rights, justice and compromise through the 32 funny and colorful pages of Click, Clack, Moo. The cold farm cows are on strike until they receive electric blankets and they let Farmer Brown know through type-written memos. Brown is agitated by the typewriter-using, […]
Tags: Carolyn M. Mullin·Chickens·Civil Disobedience·Cows·Doreen Cronin·Ducks·Early Elementary·Farmed Animals·Hens·Humor·Lesson Plans·Negotiation·Strike·Workers Rights
Diary of a Spider
July 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JACQUELINE BODNAR Since spiders are probably one of the most feared creatures around, it stands to reason that a book providing a view of things from their side would make interesting reading. And this book does not disappoint! Diary of a Spider is a personal account of a spider going through its normal […]
Tags: Doreen Cronin·Early Elementary·Humor·Jacqueline Bodnar·Living in Harmony with Nature·Preschoolers·Spiders
Diary of a Worm
January 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Books
Review By JACQUELINE BODNAR This book is cleverly set up as a diary that was written by a worm. It gives the reader an inside look at what it might be like to be a worm, and how the big world, and humans, appear from their perspective. The worm writes about things kids can relate […]
Tags: Doreen Cronin·Early Elementary·Harry Bliss·Jacqueline Bodnar·KIND Children's Honor Books·Preschoolers·Silly Books